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Program: Proiecte
de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente (TE)
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0358
Nr. Contract:
nr. 166/01.09.2020
“THE
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SPRINGTAILS IN THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS WITH DETECTING OF
DIVERSITY HOTSPOTS, GLACIAL REFUGIA AND POSTGLACIAL COLONIZATION PATTERNS”
Director proiect:
Dr.
Cristina Fiera,
CS1
The present project integrates a wide range of new and innovative tools and
methods to address relevant ecological questions about ecological processes
that drive the diversity patterns of Collembola communities in Carpathians
Mountains, especially for threatened species, trying to indicate of
dispersal routes, colonization sources and glacial refugia. Improved
understanding of the factors that restrict range sizes and sufficiently
precise models to foresee changes in the spatial distribution of rare
species are therefore indispensable tools in biodiversity forecasting and
conservation management.
The project will provide
first information about the extent of cryptic diversity of Collembola from
Romanian Carpathians. These results on genetic aspects will be integrated in
phylogeographical patterns and could resolve some problems as: current
genetic diversity, distribution of lineages, and cryptic speciation within
Collembola species; importance of the Carpathians as a glacial refugium for
some species or structure of the Carpathian refugial area in terms of
multiple isolated sites. The dataset of this project will be added to the
data pool of other Carpathian countries, in order to formulate a more
detailed view on the spatial distribution of Collembola across the whole
Carpathian range (large-scale analysis).
Preliminary
and final results will be presented to the international soil zoology
community by participation at some Conferences (XVIII International
Colloquium on Soil Zoology; XV International Colloquium on Apterygota,
6th European
Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB)
that will overlap with the project (2021, 2022).
Project results will be
disseminated to the broader scientific community through publications in
peer-reviewed ISI journals with high impact factor.
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